Original U.S. WWII B-17 “Speedball” Sole Survivor & Prisoner of War Co-Pilot Lt. Kenneth L. Vaughn Patched A2 Flight Jacket - 511th Bomb Squadron Category_Receiver Top Cover veterans groups engaged in a

veterans groups engaged in a call for the Smithsonian to put the aircraft on display

postal workers and ammunition inspectors

The pommel is Waffenamt marked and he blade ricasso is also marked with German three letter code 44 asw indicating 1944 manufacture by the well-known maker E

One bottle of INSECT REPELLENT

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Original U.S. WWII B-17 “Speedball” Sole Survivor & Prisoner of War Co-Pilot Lt. Kenneth L. Vaughn Patched A2 Flight Jacket - 511th Bomb Squadron Category_Receiver Top Cover veterans groups engaged in aOriginal Item. One of a Kind. This is the patched A 2 Flight Jacket of Prisoner of War & Co Pilot Lieutenant Kenneth L. Vaughn, 511th Bombardment Squadron, 351st Bombardment Group, who served aboard the B 17 Speedball during his 8th overall mission when the aircraft was shot down, forced to make a crash landing at Bordeaux, France on December 31st, 1943. According to a newspaper clipping in the pocket, Vaughn was the only one of his crew to survive